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The first success of the environmental movements of the 1960s was to save the whale. Now, with deep irony, whales may be about to save us with their poo.'

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US presses Japan to resolve base dispute
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JIEGU, China — Prime Minister Wen Jiabao spent Friday in the Tibetan high country, comforting survivors of this week’s devastating earthquake in a prominent display of concern by the country’s Han leadership for one of China’s most troubled ethnic minorities.
“No matter whether you are Tibetans or Hans, you are all in one family,” Mr. Wen said during a visit to an orphanage in Yushu Prefecture, a remote area of western China to which he had raced on Thursday after canceling a trip to Indonesia, state news media reported. President Hu Jintao also changed his plans after the quake, cutting short a trip to Brazil.


At the end, the train with Noriko speeds from Onomichi back to Tokyo, leaving behind Kyoko and Shukichi.



India's Way   Protests Awaken a Goliath in India

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Recent anticorruption protests have stirred the middle class, which includes families like the Roys, above, that have remained disengaged from politics.

AS Mindel Appel showed me the contents of her freezer, my pulse began to race.


race
v., raced, rac·ing, rac·es. v.intr.

1. Sports. To compete in a contest of speed.
2. To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
3. To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.

v.tr.

1. Sports.
   1. To compete against in a race.
   2. To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.
2. To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
3. To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.

 speed

━━[動]（sped 〔spéd〕 or(他)3, (自)2, 4で〜・ed）(他)

1 〈事・仕事などを〉促進させる, はかどらせる((up))

speed the negotiations
交渉の成立をうながす.

2 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈足どりなどを〉速める, 〈人・馬・車などを〉急がす, 急がせる, 疾走させる

A police car sped the survivors to hospital.
警察の車が生存者をのせて病院へ疾走した.

3 〈機械・車・治療などの〉速度を速める((up))；〈機械などの〉速度を一定にする

speed up industrial production
工業生産の速度を速める.

4 〈人の〉出発を早める, をすみやかに帰らせる.

━━(自)

1 ［I（[副]）］速く動く［進む］, 疾走する((along))；〈時間が〉すばやく過ぎ去る((by, past))

The train sped on its way to London.
列車は一路ロンドンへ向かって走った

The news sped like wildfire.
知らせは燎原(りょうげん)の火のような勢いで伝わった.

2 速度を増す((up))；((ふつう進行形))〈車などが〉制限速度以上で走る

I didn't realize I was speeding until I heard the siren.
サイレンの音を聞くまでスピードオーバーしているとは気づかなかった.

3 〈人が〉（一定の仕方・方法で）やっていく；〈物・事が〉うまくいく.

4 ((古))成功［繁栄］する.

［古英語spēdより. 原義は「成功」］

race
n.

1. Sports.
   1. A competition of speed, as in running or riding.
   2. races A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course: a fan of the dog races.
2. An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner: the presidential race.
3. Steady or rapid onward movement: the race of time.
4. 1. A strong or swift current of water.
   2. The channel of such a current.
   3. An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.
5. A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.
6. See slipstream (sense 1).

v., raced, rac·ing, rac·es. v.intr.

1. Sports. To compete in a contest of speed.
2. To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
3. To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.

v.tr.

1. Sports.
   1. To compete against in a race.
   2. To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.
2. To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
3. To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.

[Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās, rush, running.]

cut short

Abbreviate, stop abruptly, as in The thunderstorm cut short our picnic, or She cut her short, saying she'd already heard the story of their breakup. Shakespeare used this term to mean "put a sudden end to someone's life": "Rather than bloody war shall cut them short" (2 Henry VI, 4:4), a less common usage today. The broader usage dates from the mid-1600s.

Roo or Roos may refer to:

Roo

• Roo, a character from the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne
• Roo, a nickname for footballer Wayne Rooney (born 1985), a Manchester United player

pooh

Line breaks: pooh

Pronunciation: /puː

  

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(also poo)

INFORMAL

EXCLAMATION

1Used to express disgust at an unpleasant smell:she would hold her nose and shout ‘Pooh!’

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2Used to express impatience or contempt:Oh pooh! Don’t be such a spoilsport

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NOUN

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1(usually poo) Excrement:mind the dog poo

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1.1[COUNT NOUN] An act of defecating.

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VERB

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(usually poo) Defecate.

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Origin

natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the late16th century.

Roos

• Roos, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
• Roos, the Dutch word for rose and pronounced almost identically, unlike the nickname for kangaroos; a commonly used as a given name for girls
• Roos, the Flemish family extent in the region of Hoogstraten, Belgium
• Roos, a common nickname for kangaroos
• Roos, short for KangaROOS, a brand of shoe with a pocket inside

The four Grand Slam tournaments, also called the Majors^[1], are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention. They are:

• Australian Open
• French Open
• Wimbledon
• US Open

Spotlight:

Maureen Connolly With Wimbledon Trophy

Who was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of tennis? In her short (five years) professional career in women's tennis, Maureen Connolly won tournament after tournament, proving herself to be one of the all-time great singles women tennis players. Born on this date in 1934, Connolly was 10 years old when she first picked up a racket. She entered her first competition soon after. When she was 14, she became the youngest girl ever to win the national junior tennis championship. She entered the women's league in 1950, racking up titles; in 1953, she became the first and youngest woman to win the Grand Slam. Just a year later, a horseback-riding accident resulted in an injury to her leg that made it impossible for Connolly to continue to play competitively.



riding

(rī'dĭng)
n.

1. The act of riding.
2. Horseback riding.

rid·ing² (rī'dĭng)
n.

1. An administrative division or electoral division in Canada.
2. Any one of three former administrative divisions of Yorkshire, England.

[Middle English, alteration of trithing, from Old English *thrithing, from Old Norse thridhjungr, third part, from thridhi, third.]